Art Industry News: Princess Diana’s Statue Will Be Unveiled at Kensington Palace in a Project Guided by Her Feuding Sons + Other Stories
Plus, activists say the new plan to save Venice s lagoon doesn t go far enough, and a previously unknown Thomas Gainsborough is identified.
April 6, 2021
Lady Diana Spencer, the future Princess of Wales, June 1st, 1981. (Photo by John Shelley Collection/Avalon/Getty Images)
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, April 5.
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Man Admits to Stealing Warhols, Trying to Sell Forgeries on eBay – A 46-year-old Boston man has pleaded guilty to stealing two works from Andy Warhol’s “Shadows” series from a friend and selling two fake versions of the 1978 works on eBay for $80,000 in 2016. Brian Walshe will be sentenced in August for wire fraud charges and faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. (